arXiv:2508. 10875v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) are rapidly emerging as a powerful and promising alternative to the dominant autoregressive (AR) paradigm.
arXiv:2606. 19475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized language modeling through autoregressive generation, enabling strong performance across a wide range of tasks.
The paper introduces Seq-Drifting, a new framework that enables diffusion language models to generate an entire text sequence in a single forward pass. By applying a drift field to continuous token representations, the model learns a direct mapping from Gaussian noise to text, using attraction to guide outputs toward contextually plausible tokens and repulsion to prevent repetition and collapse. Experiments show that Seq-Drifting achieves a perplexity of 36.01 on LM1B and performs competitively in unconditional, conditional, translation, summarization, and reasoning tasks.
arXiv:2605.10971v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Discrete diffusion language models (DLMs) generate text by iteratively denoising all positions in parallel, offering an alternative to autoregressi...
The paper introduces Representation-based Masked Diffusion Model (RMDM), a new framework for language modeling that improves upon existing Masked Diffusion Models by incorporating global semantic guidance. RMDM encodes text into a continuous semantic space with a pretrained encoder, normalizes this representation to a Gaussian prior via an invertible transformation, and then trains a masked diffusion model conditioned on this latent representation to coordinate parallel token updates. Experiments show that RMDM yields higher generation quality, especially when using aggressive few‑step sampling.
arXiv:2601. 12247v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) present a promising non-sequential paradigm for text generation, distinct from standard autoregressive (AR) approaches.
arXiv:2609.07160v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) generate text via bidirectional iterative denoising, naturally supporting user-specified constraints anchored...
arXiv:2608. 16513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in diffusion models and Transformer architectures have led to significant progress in text-to-video generation.
arXiv:2602. 19066v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have recently achieved strong results in text generation.
arXiv:2601. 17917v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) offer a compelling paradigm for natural language generation, leveraging parallel decoding and bidirectional attention to achieve superior global coherence compared to autoregressive models.
The paper introduces Less Uniform Diffusion (LUDI), a framework that improves uniform diffusion language models by using a less uniform loss and per-token time embeddings to guide reverse transitions and enable confidence-based few-step sampling. Experiments demonstrate that LUDI provides cleaner supervision, enhances few-step generation, and scales to a 7B model (LUDI-7B) that achieves a 3-token-per-step speedup over autoregressive decoding while matching masked diffusion baselines. The work suggests that UDLMs still have untapped potential for complex generation tasks.
Speculative decoding, in which a lightweight draft model first generates a draft sequence that is then verified in parallel by the target model, has become a prevalent paradigm for accelerating large language model inference. Recent work such as DFlash further boosts drafting efficiency by leveraging diffusion drafters, whose parallel denoising mechanism enables draft generation in a single forward pass.